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[(Anonymous)]

as a girl myself, i think it's harder to stan girl groups bc, through my experience as a female, i can more easily spot the inner-workings behind each member's public persona. we all know idols promote false images but it's almost like it's easier to play along when they're male, simply because i can't call bs about half the things i can with girls... if that makes any sense?

[(Anonymous)]

i also feel like there is a much narrower set of stock roles for female idols to play, and yeah, it feels (to me) like there can be more artifice for girl groups' personas, or at least their public personas feel stifling to me.

[(Anonymous)]

"their public personas feel stifling to me."

exactly

^

[(Anonymous)]

that's definitely valid, but that's also partly my own incentive for getting interested in girl groups (deconstructing identities is a lot of fun) and a lot of people use that as incentive for getting interested in guy groups, too (false images are prevalent amongst guy groups, too), so.

Re: ^

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, that is totally valid! i wanted to stress how much of a personal thing this is for me. call me misandrist or whatever, but while blah blah gender roles hurt everyone, i really do believe that they hurt women more. as such it's easier for me to have fun comparing false images in boy groups to whatever their real personality is like, whereas i just get sad thinking about the ways girls are socialized and it reminds me too much of my everyday life.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

when i'm really involved in a group there's a certain level of escapism and fantasy involved. I relate to the problems that female idols face more than i do to whatever is going on with boy groups, which breaks down the distance needed to facilitate the fantasy/fiction because i actually care about them as people and then it feels too creepy and not as fun, because at the end of the day, i don't want to spend all my stanning time worrying about people's wellbeing.